"From now on I'll just sit back and laugh at the absolute chaos these two companies are creating between themselves.  The only reason chaos like this exists in the first place, is because of the petty war games these two companies are using against each other regards the figure/content formats. "

Sorry Mate, but the above is quite an unfair characterization of both SM& DAZ inc.
if indeed there is any "chaos" in these online user forums over formats/figures it is due to people becoming too emotionally attached to a particular software package and the " tribal culture" surrounding it.
DAZ&SM  has as much right to their Proprietary Formats as Autodesk ,Maxon, Newtek, SideFX et al.

Now we can engage park bench speculation about the business/market Wisdom of such proprietary Formats
but to call their product development& target market choices "Petty" is just plain wrong.

"The only ones that suffer as a result, are the customers, and when the customers complain, they get silenced."

the internet is a big place what's to stop one from writing a word press blog bleeting all about how company X wont
make their 3D content formats compatible with thier beloved software from company Z. 

anyone with capable hardware and money can purchase
and use the latest version of poser

Anyone with capable hardware can Download the latest
build of the free Daz studio.

Access to all of the various formats is available to any consumer as an option...it is not however, a civil right.   
 

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